How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pellets and owl myths, sentence 15
Owls are skilled hunters but not especially good at puzzles; crows and parrots do much better.
Who acts: Owls · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: skilled hunters, puzzles
This is a sentence of the lesson «How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pellets and owl myths» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Owls), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hunters | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hunters | cop |
| 3 | skilled | skilled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hunters | amod |
| 4 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 good | cc |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 good | advmod |
| 7 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 8 good | advmod |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hunters | conj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 puzzles | case |
| 10 | puzzles | puzzle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 good | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 crows | punct |
| 12 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 do | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 parrots | cc |
| 14 | parrots | parrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 crows | conj |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 better | aux |
| 16 | much | much | ADV | _ | 17 better | advmod |
| 17 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 puzzles | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hunters | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Owls | skilled hunters | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not be | Owls not said here | puzzles | especially property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:302-how-owls-work-silent-wings-turning-heads-pellets-and-owl-myths.lesson:15.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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